Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

• iMac (as a base for research, to edit and produce my magazine, poster and trailer) 

• Canon Mini DV (to film our trailer, behind the scenes, and location recces)

• SLR (to take images for my poster and magazine)

• Blogger (to present all of my work in research and planning, filming, and evaluation)

• Final Cut (to edit and produce my teaser trailer)

• Internet (to research poster, magazine and other teaser trailers. E.g. Google, You Tube)

• Facebook (the main focus of our film, it has a high involvement so i used to site to reflect off for my magazine)

• GarageBand (to record my voice for podcasts and make my blog more interactive, sound tests)

• iShowU (to show the examiner what i had done so far, at each stage)

• Prezi (to show my publication plan for my magazine)

• PowerPoint (when completed, i took a screen grab of the prop list i produced)

Evaluation Question 3: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary tasks?

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• Teaser trailer

Use
- Title, shown towards the end, which is 'Offline'
- 'Coming Soon' shown straight after the title
- Conventional voice-over throughout
- Production/distribution company shown at the beginning
- Typical horror genre aspects: action, fast pace editing, dark scenes, low-key lighting, Carol Clover's Final Girl theory, implied male as villain and female as victim.

Develop
- The trailer is based around the social networking site, Facebook.

Challenge
- You get a good sense of our story in our trailer as you see quite a lot more of the narrative, there are images of Georgia that look a bit haunting, and it looks unlikely that she survies; however, she is supposed to be the final girl.

• Magazine

Use
- The biggest font is for the masthead, 'Close Up'
- There are sub stories down the right hand side
- Barcode
- Price.

Develop
- I have used more text and less images as you might not normally expect on a magazine front cover.

Challenge
- The page is set out like what you would see on a computer screen, a lot to do with the social networking element
- The title of film is not as big as you would normally expect; however, the size i have used works well with the layout and the inspiration i got from the Facebook page.

• Poster

Use
- Huge font for the title of the film, 'Offline', cast and crew information at the bottom, image 

Develop
- The picture of Georgia being tortured is inside the text, which is quite usual.

Challenge
- The fact that i have just included a few colours (blue and black) which i have done as it is related to the Facebook colour scheme, of blue.

FINAL TRAILER

Research and Planning: Rough Cut 2

Research and Planning: Poster Final

• This is my final draft of my poster.
• What i have done to improve it is: add an image of a girl on her computer, as if she is on the social networking site, Facebook, which our film is based around. I then faded the image into the black background so that the image is highlighted. I also edited the image to have a tint of blue, relating to the Facebook aspect.
• I have also moved the title, 'Offline' to the top of the page so that there is enough room to see the right amount of the image. 
• The tagline, 'You have been tagged' has been moved up aswell, so that it is placed underneath the title, and made a little smaller, again so there is enough room for the image.
• I have put an inner glow onto the title so that it stands out more and you know it is the most important part of the poster.

Research and Planning: Poster Progess

• Here is my poster up to now. I struggled with getting started with producing it as i had so many ideas and wanted to make it perfect for my film. I think i have made a good start and i am going to stick with this idea

Research and Planning: Poster Idea

• Here is a poster i found from research that i really liked and decided i wanted my poster to follow the same conventions. 
• I like the picture inside the title as i think it tells a lot of the story through this.
• The image of the woods leaves you guessing what else there is to the narrative.

Research and Planning: Rough Cut

 

This is the rough cut of our trailer. The improvements we have to make are the editing effects and transitions, and to cut it down to make it a lot shorter.

Research and Planning: Magazine

Here is my magazine final draft! :)

Research and Planning: Filming

• Today we filmed the scene of the girl on Facebook, and she unexpectedly gets tagged in a photo of her friend tied up.

• Here is the actor release form for myself, as i was 'the friend'. 

Research and Planning: Location Recce

• Here is the location recce for the scene we filmed where the girl has been tagged in the photo.

• This is my bedroom, and we thought about props for the background and set it out like a typical girl's room for the mis-en-scene.

Research and Planning: Unused Clips

Here is some of the footage that we haven't used for our trailer, which i thought was useful to film at the time, so I had more of a range of shots and angles to choose from, to make our trailer the best it can be.

Research and Planning: 'Offline'

This is the dictionary meaning of our title for the film, 'Offline' -

• When a computer or other device is not turned on or connected to other devices, it is said to be "offline." This is the opposite of being "online," when a device can readily communicate with other devices.

This is the meaning of the word from the Urban Dictionary:

• A person who has no idea about anything and has never tried to understand. 

OR

• Commonly misused to mean online, ie from the internet, when, in fact, they mean the exact opposite.

Research and Planning: Company Logo Designs

Research and Planning: Sound

• Here is an idea of the kind of song we would like at the start of our trailer, where it is light-hearted, catchy music and slowly becoming more darker.

Research and Planning: Magazine Draft

• Here is a final draft of my magazine.
• I have changed my idea a lot as i thought this was something very different that has not been done before. 
• Also, it relates to the idea of Facebook a lot more than my previous idea.
• You can see the genre of the film as well.

 

 

• I got the idea of doing a computer-like magazine by researching.
• I found this 'Total Film' magazine, of Superman Returns, which is set out like a newspaper.

• Here is a screen grab of a Facebook page, which i am trying to replicate for my magazine front cover.

•  This is what i am currently at in creating my magazine. Feedback please :)

Research and Planning: Research

• This is the trailer to a film that has recently been released in cinemas.

• It is similar to our film, with the sense of social networking having a negative effect on someones life.

• We have taken some ideas from this trailer, and we particularly like part at the start where we see the type writing, so we are going to try and re-create this and slightly copy it.

Research and Planning: Quality of Images

• Today we have been learning about how the quality of CLR cameras are better than digital cameras.

• We have took photographs with both a CLR camera and a digital camera to see the difference.  
• The differences are circled red.

Research and Planning: Possible Font

• Here are a few ideas of fonts i narrowed it down to, for my film title 'Offline'.

• One of these could appear on my poster or magazine, and will be pictured at the end of my trailer.

Research and Planning: Filming

• Today we filmed our 'Facebook scene' and 'Running Scene'.

• We filmed the Facebook scene in my house, in the computer room. We tried to set the mis-en-scene like the main character, Georgia, would actually live there and go on the computer regularly, by using a comfy chair and basic computer. 

• We filmed the running scene at my partner, Chloe's farm where she keeps her horse (the same location as the 'torture scene') as we thought this was a scary and effective place. we waiting till it was dark so that it would seem more realistic the audience could receive the full effect.
• Here is a plan for the running scene we created for the actress, Georgia, to look at so she understood what we wanted her to do.

Research and Planning: Script

* Here is the script for our 'Facebook Scene'. It is a short conversation of turn-taking between Louise, our main character, and Trevor, the kidnapper.


* To make the characters in the trailer (Louise and Trevor) seem more real, we had to make them their own Facebook accounts; therefore we had to make them Hotmail accounts to get their own email address to sign into Facebook.